Clockwork VS Montrose

Compare Clockwork vs Montrose and see what are their differences.

Clockwork

A scheduler process to replace cron. (by Rykian)

Montrose

Recurring events library for Ruby. Enumerable recurrence objects and convenient chainable interface. (by rossta)
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Clockwork Montrose
2 2
535 818
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0.0 6.7
6 months ago about 2 months ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Clockwork

Posts with mentions or reviews of Clockwork. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-25.
  • Newest way to handle Cron Jobs?
    4 projects | /r/rubyonrails | 25 Mar 2022
    https://github.com/Rykian/clockwork always worked well when I have used it in the past.
  • Any idea how can we convert the string time to utc in ruby.
    1 project | /r/rubyonrails | 11 Jan 2021
    Unless you have very specific requirements that preclude this, you might want to run this task as a background job (e.g. Sidekiq worker) instead of as a rake task. This is a little bit of an opinion. There isn't one right way (indeed, that's one of the best things about Ruby). But in my career I've usually seen rake tasks used for things that need to be performed infrequently, and not as part of normal system operation. For things that need to be performed at regular intervals, and are part of the normal operation of the app, I usually see them set up as scheduled background jobs. You can use a background job gem (Sidekiq is wildly popular; Resque is another good one) and combine it with a scheduler (I'm personally a fan of the Clockwork gem but there are others out there).

Montrose

Posts with mentions or reviews of Montrose. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-31.
  • Recurring events, looking for recommendations
    3 projects | /r/rails | 31 Aug 2022
    Hi I've got a project which requires normal one off events, as well as recurring events. Looking at the resources available it seems like there are really just three gems available(montrose, recurrence and ice_cube). Of the three I've had the best results with recurrence because it allows me to pass a hash of arguments to the schedule builder. As well as handling exceptions which montrose doesn't seem to offer.
  • Scheduling app with recurring tasks
    1 project | /r/rails | 16 Mar 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Clockwork and Montrose you can also consider the following projects:

Whenever - Cron jobs in Ruby

resque-scheduler - A light-weight job scheduling system built on top of Resque

Sidekiq-Cron - Scheduler / Cron for Sidekiq jobs

minicron - 🕰️ Monitor your cron jobs

sidekiq-scheduler - Lightweight job scheduler extension for Sidekiq

rufus-scheduler - scheduler for Ruby (at, in, cron and every jobs)

que-scheduler - A lightweight cron scheduler for the async job worker Que